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I know, but Python used that joke earlier than Mel Brookes and, I think, a lot funnier.

Slaine mac Roth wrote:I know, but Python used that joke earlier than Mel Brookes and, I think, a lot funnier.

I dunno... I loved that tiny cain (cane? sp?) Igor was using... and then he hands it up to Fredrick and gestures how to hold it and wobble it.

The best part about the Python gag was when somebody would start to say the punchline and everyone else in the sketch would turn and give him a silencing/warning look and he wouldn't even finish the sentence.

Don't get me wrong, I do like Mel Brookes a hell of a lot. However, I do run into a stumbling block with him, as with a lot of American humourists (I hate the term comedian, it sounds like someone with with an inflated idea of his own humouressness telling uinfunny jokes - yes Bobby Davro, you can put your hand down) and that is the cultural divide.

Quite simply, a pun, wether oral or visual, will be made that references something in contemporary American culture and it will go over my head because I have no idea what they are referencing. Robin Hood- Men in Tights seems to be a particular culprit.

Its like me referncing Waggledance or Alan Meale - the names probably mean nothing to you. For example, I could say that Puka have got the wedding cake concession in Shirebrook. Obviously, I am making a sarcastic comment about something but, someone not living in the area surrounding Mansfield will have no frame of reference (Puka make meat pies and Shirebrook in a very dodgy town just outside mansfield)

Therefore, to me, Monty Python make the best humourous films and are onlu surpassed by the Goons. But that's mainly because I'm British.

Does that make sense?

Overall, I definitely prefer Python to Brooks. No Brooks movie can stand up to Holy Grail. The only place I deviate is that "Walk this way" gag.

Having said that, both have made movies that I see as losers. I hardly laughed at all at Meaning of Life or Spaceballs and would never reccomend them to friends.

Life of Brian is pretty good also.

ElfDude wrote:Walk this way...

No, no, this way....

Slaine mac Roth wrote:Therefore, to me, Monty Python make the best humourous films and are onlu surpassed by the Goons. But that's mainly because I'm British.

Does that make sense?

I know where you're coming from. Most Americans don't really find the British humor all that funny when compared to comedy's from this side of the pond. Chalk that up to cutural and language (slang) differences. I won't debate Brooks vs. Python...I love them both for different reasons.

ElfDude wrote:I'm a little bit weird, so take this for what it's worth. Most of the films I end up seeing are family films because I go with my daughters.

One of my favorite family movies in the last couple of years was Holes.

Holes was Brilliant! Excellent movie, whether you're a kid or adult.

Monty Python is always classic. Better Get a Bucket!

My daughter and I saw Van Helsing yesterday. What a trip! Bizarre and wonderful. We really liked it.

"Heee vas my.....BOYFRIEND!!!!!"

I must admit, though, I don't think Monty Python's films came up to the standard of their TV work. Nothing in the film's was ever as funny the Parrot Sketch, Spam or The Spanish Inquisition.

Saying that, I am a big fan of the Knoghts Who Say Ni and the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

I want to apply to the Minister of Funny Walks for a grant.

As long as you don't enter Upper Class Twit of the Year

by-tor wrote:I want to apply to the Minister of Funny Walks for a grant.

My name's Loretta. I want to have babies....

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